Illuminated sign-box



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' G. A. MEYER.

ILLUMINATBD SIGN BOX.

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Patented Dec. 4, 1888.

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UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE A." MEYER, OF BROOKLYN, NElV YORK.

ILLUMINATED SlGN-BOXQ SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,779, dated December 4, 1888 Application filed April 19, 1888. Serial No. 27134 4. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, GEORGE A. MEYER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Illuminated Sign- Boxes, of which. the following. is a specification.

My invention relates to the construction of the box or body portion of illuminated signs or lanterns; and it consists of certain novel features, hereinafter described, for producing an effective ventilation of said box, and of an ornamental border thereon; also forprotecting the light medium of the box against rain-water or direct draft, and for obtaining a superior reflection of light from the box, as into a window.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a partial rear view and partial vertical longitudinal section of a sign-box embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a partial front view and partial vertical longitudinal section taken through the border thereof. Fig. 3 represents a partial top view and partial horizontal section thereof. Fig. at represents a vertical cross-section thereof. Figs. 5 and 6 represent detail views of parts.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The letter A indicates the bottom, B the top or roof, 0 the ends, D the front side, and E the rear side, of the box, the whole formed of sheet metal or other suitable material and provided with hooks or other means for suspending it in the desired place.

In the roof B are ventilating-holes a, the edges of which may be provided with flanges b, to connect with suitable air-outlet pipes, and beneath said holes, in the upper part of the box, is a pan, F, for receiving any rainwater, dust, or other matter that may enter through the ventilating-holes. Said pan F is suspended from the roof by means of brackets c, to permit its removal from the box, and from the pan extends a pipe,G, downwardly through the bottom A, for carrying off the water that may accumulate in the pan. The pipe G thus acts as a drain, while it also permits an upward passage of air from the outside of the box to the space above the pan, thereby creating a draft through the roof-holes a, for bet- On the top end of ter ventilating the box. the pipe G is a telescopic section, G, held in place by a spring-catch, d, for adapting said pipe to be disconnected from the pan. Air is admitted to the interior of the box through ventilating-holes in a border, H, to be presently described, or, if said border be omitted, through corresponding holes formed on or near the bottom A, it thence passing upward around the pan F to the roof-holes.

The border H is on the edges of the front D of the box, it being for the purpose of ornament,and is made in sections, (marked 6 ande,) each of which is open on the rear side and perforated on the front side, the whole being hollow, as more clearly shown in Figs.v 5 and 6. Those portions of the border-sections forming the bottom and ends of the border are each fitted with a transparent or semi-transparent plate, for f, which may be composed of glass or mica, while those portions of the sections forming the top of the border are left entirely open, thus freely communicating with the interior of the box, so that the air may escape from the top portion of the box through the perforated front side of said top border-sections. The border-sections e c alternate with each other, and the plates f of the sections 6 are fitted into the front portions thereof, (see Fig. 5,) indistinction from the plates f of the sections 6', which are fitted into the rear portions thereof, (see Fig. 6,) so that the sections 6 communicate freely with the interior of the box, while the sections (2 form a continuous air-passage, whereby a very effective ventilation of the border is produced. At a point in rear of said top of the border, within the box, is a reflector, I, Fig. 4, the essential purpose of which is to hide the interior parts of the box from view through the holes of the border, and on the rear lower part of said top of the border is an upturned flange, g, Fig. 4, which acts as a water-shed to catch and throw off any rain-water that may enter through said holes.

The rear side, E, of the box is open, it being usually provided with hinged doors E, with glass plates for the free passage of light rearwardly from the box, while the front side, D,

of the box is provided with an illuminated sign, 1), 0t an) usual or suitable construction,

and which may have a reflector on the rear side. Said rear open side, E, of the box is inclined from top to bottom toward the front of low border, open on the rear side and periorated on the front: side, and transparent or semi-transparent platcs fitted into the rear portion otsaid border to form a continuous the box, as shown in Fig. l, and in the upper part of the box is a reflector, J, preferably of curved cross-section and electronickel-plated, which serves to throw the light from the box downwardtv through said inclined side, so that it the box is placed in front of a showwindow, at the top thcreol, the window may be very eltfet-tivetr illuminated from the box. Said reflector J is suspended from the top of the box by pivoted supports 2', which are on or 3 near one edge thereof parallel to the sides of the box, the other edge being sustained by a bracket or spring-catch, I, for adapting the re doctor to be adjusted to any angle in relation to the rear side of the box with a eorrespondin adjustment in the direction of the reflected rays of light.

alternate sections thereof The illuminating medium of the box is in 1 l and for the purpose described.

this example a gas burner or burners, K, to which access is had through gravitating doors n, Fig. 1, in the bottom of the box, and which burners may be provided with reflectors K, of

t'rusto-conical shape, to co-operate with the reflector J, above mentioned.

For the purpose of supporting the border H the front side of the box may have a flange, 0, Fig. 1, provided with openings corresponding to the several border-sections, upon which the sections may be fastened.

air-passage, substantially as and for the purpose described.

i. In asign-box, the combination of a hollow border, open on the rear side and perforated on the front side, and transparent or semi-transparent plates titted into the rear portion of the bottom and ends of said border, leaving, the top thereof free to communicate with the interior of the box, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In a sign-box, the combination of a hollow border made in sections, each open on the rear side and perforated on the trout side, and transparent or semitransparent plates fitted into the front and rear portions, respm'tively, of alternate sections olsaid border, to permit to communicate with the interior of the box, substantially as (3. in a sign-box, the combination of :1V hollow border, open on the rear side and pertorated on the front side, and a reflector within the box in rear of said border, substantially as and for the purpose described.

7. in a sign-box, the combination of a hollow border, open on. the rear side and perforated on the front; side, and a flange on the rear lower part of said border acting as a water-shcd, substantiallyas and for the purpose \Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

the roof thereof, in combination with a pan i upper part of the box, substantially as and beneath said holes in the upper part of the box, and a combined drain and ventilating; pipe extending from said pan through the bottom of the box, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. A sign-box havingventilating-holes in described.

8. A sign-box having a .rear open side inclined from top to bottom toward the front of the box, in combination with a reflector in the for the purpose described.

0. A sign-box having a rear open side inclined from top to bottom toward the front of p the box, in combination with a reflector in the upper part of the box, pivoted on one edge for the roof, and also in or near the bottom therei of, in combination with a pan beneath said holes in the upper part of the box, and a comf bined drain and ventilating pipe extending 1 lrom said pan through the bottom of the box, substantially as and for the purpose described. j

3. In a sign-box, the combination of a 1101- its adjustment in relation to said inclined side of the box, substantially as and for the purpose d escri bed.

GEORGE A. MEYER.

'Witnesses: FRANCIS (f. Bownx, JAs. EVBANK. 

